Jay DeMarcus Quotes
Chicago was a big influence on all three of us growing up. I admire their musical integrity. When the opportunity came up to produce them, I couldn't let it go by.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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Except for a handful of banks that just keep a handful of their loans in portfolio, on their balance sheet, every other loan that's originated in the United States - whether from a bank, mortgage company, mortgage broker - is sold into the secondary market.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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Your children should know that you're always there for them, and that they can call on you when needed. But give them the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.
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I think you need to have a strong vision of your own.
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Chicago was a big influence on all three of us growing up. I admire their musical integrity. When the opportunity came up to produce them, I couldn't let it go by.
